Inset paragraph with vertical text next to it

Question

I'm looking for a way to inset an entire paragraph and add a vertical line to the left of it with some vertical text in the middle (text need not be a variable, there's only going to be 3 or 4 different words in total):

I have no idea where to start looking. Should I use a table and a Tikz image in the first column? Some sort of mini-page? Is there a package that already does this? I'm using the framed package with the leftbar environment at the moment, but it doesn't allow me to insert some text into the middle of the bar.

The paragraphs will differ in height, but they'll never span multiple pages so 'in the middle' is a pretty easily defined property.

ps. This is pretty close, but not quite.

Answer 1

With help of TikZ:

Code:

\documentclass{article}
\usepackage{tikz}
\usetikzlibrary{calc}
\usepackage{lipsum}

\newcommand\verpar[2]{
    \par\vskip1ex
\noindent\begin{tikzpicture}[
paragraph/.style = {inner sep=0pt,
                    text width=\textwidth-\baselineskip}
                            ]
\node (p1) [paragraph] {#2};
\path ([xshift=-0.75\baselineskip] p1.south west) coordinate (p2)
            -- node (p3) [sloped,font=\sffamily] {#1} (p2 |- p1.north);
\draw[very thick] (p2) -- (p3.west) (p3.east) -- (p2 |- p1.north);
\end{tikzpicture}}

\begin{document}
\lipsum[1]

\verpar{Text}{\lipsum[2]}

\lipsum[3]
\end{document}

Answer 2

Without the help of TikZ:

\documentclass[a4paper]{article}
\usepackage{lipsum}
\usepackage{libertine}
\parindent0pt\parskip.5em
\usepackage{graphicx,xcolor}

\def\labelpar#1#2{\vspace{.25\baselineskip}%
\noindent\hfill{\color{gray!50}\vrule width 2pt}\hspace{-2ex}%
\fboxrule2pt\fboxsep.6ex\fcolorbox{white}{white}{%
\rotatebox[origin=c]{90}{\color{cyan}\sffamily\bfseries #1}}\hfill%
\begin{minipage}[c]{\dimexpr\linewidth-4ex}\color{red!40!black}
\parfillskip=0pt\sffamily#2\end{minipage}\vspace{.25\baselineskip}\par}

\begin{document}
\lipsum[1]
\labelpar{Some text}{\lipsum[2]}
\lipsum[3]
\end{document}